These publications were generated in support of the SubT Challenge by DARPA or performers.
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Chung, T.H., & Orekhov, V. & Maio, A. (2023). Into the Robotic Depths: Analysis and Insights from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 6. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-062722-100728
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Orekhov, V., Maio, A., Daniel, R., & Chung, T. (2023). Inspiring Field Robotics Advances through the Design of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Field Robotics, 3, 560–604. https://doi.org/10.55417/fr.2023018
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Orekhov, V. L., & Chung, T. H. (2022). The DARPA Subterranean Challenge: A synopsis of the Circuits Stage. Field Robotics, 2, 735–747. https://doi.org/10.55417/fr.2022024
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Rogers, John & Gregory, Jason & Fink, Jonathan & Stump, Ethan. (2020). Test Your SLAM! The SubT-Tunnel dataset and metric for mapping. 955-961. 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197156.
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Rogers J.G. et al. (2021) The DARPA SubT Urban Circuit Mapping Dataset and Evaluation Metric. In: Siciliano B., Laschi C., Khatib O. (eds) Experimental Robotics. ISER 2020. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71151-1_35
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M. Hutter, C. Gehring, D. Jud, A. Lauber, C.D. Bellicoso, V. Tsounis, J. Hwangbo, K. Bodie, P. Fankhauser, M. Bloesch, R. Diethelm, S. Bachmann, A. Melzer, and M. Hoepflinger,”Anymal-a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot.,” In 2016 IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS) (pp. 38-44). IEEE.
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T. Miki, J. Lee, J. Hwangbo, L. Wellhausen, V. Koltun, and M. Hutter, “Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild,” Science Robotics, 2022. https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.abk2822
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De Petris, Paolo & Nguyen, Huan & Dharmadhikari, Mihir & Kulkarni, Mihir & Khedekar, Nikhil & Mascarich, Frank & Alexis, Kostas, "RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration" (Accepted - Pending Publication) IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems 2022.
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P. De Petris, H. Nguyen, M. Kulkarni, F. Mascarich, and K. Alexis, "Resilient Collision-tolerant Navigation in Confined Environments," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 30-June 5, 2021, Xi'an, China
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T. Dang, F. Mascarich, S. Khattak, H. Nguyen, N. Khedekar, C. Papachristos, and K. Alexis, "Field-hardened Robotic Autonomy for Subterranean Exploration," Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), 2019, Aug. 29-31, Tokyo, Japan
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M. Kamel, T. Stastny, K. Alexis, R. Siegwart, "Model Predictive Control for Trajectory Tracking of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using ROS," Springer Book on Robot Operating System (ROS) –The Complete Reference (Volume 2)
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S. Khattak, D. H. Nguyen, F. Mascarich, T. Dang, and K. Alexis, "Complementary Multi–Modal Sensor Fusion for Resilient Robot Pose Estimation in Subterranean Environments," International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2020
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S. Khattak, F. Mascarich, T. Dang, C. Papachristos, K. Alexis, "Robust Thermal-Inertial Localization for Aerial Robots: A Case for Direct Methods," International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), June 11-14, 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA
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M. Bloesch, S. Omari, M. Hutter, and R. Siegwart, “Robust visual inertial odometry using a direct EKF-based approach,” In 2015 IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS) (pp. 298-304). IEEE.
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M. Bloesch, M. Burri, H. Sommer, R. Siegwart, and M. Hutter, "The two-state implicit filter recursive estimation for mobile robots," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3, no. 1 (2017): 573-580.
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H. Oleynikova, Z. Taylor, M. Fehr, R. Siegwart, and J. Nieto, “Voxblox: Incremental 3d euclidean signed distance fields for on-board mavplanning,” In 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 1366-1373). IEEE.
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V. Reijgwart, A. Millane, H. Oleynikova, R. Siegwart, C. Cadena, and J. Nieto, “Voxgraph: Globally consistent, volumetric mapping using signed distance function submaps,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2019 Nov 18;5(1):227-34.
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P. Fankhauser, M. Bloesch, C. Gehring, M. Hutter, M. and R. Siegwart, “Robot-centric elevation mapping with uncertainty estimates,” In Mobile Service Robotics (pp. 433-440).
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T. Miki, L. Wellhausen, R. Grandia, F. Jenelten, T. Homberger, and M. Hutter, "Elevation mapping for locomotion and navigation using gpu", Submitted to 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- T. Schneider, M. Dymczyk, M. Fehr, K. Egger, S. Lynen, I. Gilitschenski, and R. Siegwart. "maplab: An open framework for research in visual-inertial mapping and localization," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3, no. 3 (2018): 1418-1425.
- T. Dang, F. Mascarich, S. Khattak, D. H. Nguyen, N. Khedekar, S. Hirsh, R. Reinhart, C. Papachristos, and K. Alexis, "Autonomous Search for Underground Mine Rescue Using Aerial Robots," IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf) 2019, Yellowstone Conference, Big Sky, Montana, Mar 7-14, 2020
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M. Kulkarni, M. Dharmadhikari, M. Tranzatto, S. Zimmermann, V. Reijgwart, P. De Petris, H. Nguyen, N. Khedekar, C. Papachristos, L. Ott, R. Siegwart, M. Hutter, and K. Alexis, “Autonomous Teamed Exploration of Subterranean Environments using Legged and Aerial Robots,” (Accepted: Pending Publication) 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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T. Dang, M. Tranzatto, S. Khattak, F. Mascarich, K. Alexis, M. Hutter, "Graph-based Subterranean Exploration Path Planning using Aerial and Legged Robots," Journal of Field Robotics, November, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.21993, Open-Source Git Repo: https://github.com/unr-arl/gbplanner_ros
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M. Dharmadhikari, H. Deshpande, T. Dang, and K. Alexis, "Hypergame-based Adaptive Behavior Path Planning for Combined Exploration and Visual Search," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 30-June 5, 2021, Xi'an, China
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L. Schmid, V. Reijgwart, L. Ott, J. Nieto, R. Siegwart, and C. Cadena. "A Unified Approach for Autonomous Volumetric Exploration of Large Scale Environments under Severe Odometry Drift," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6, no. 3 (2021): 4504-4511
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L. Wellhausen, and M. Hutter, “Rough Terrain Navigation for Legged Robots using Reachability Planning and Template Learning,” 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS 2021), September 27-October 1, 2021, Prague, Czech Republic, Open-Source Git Repo: https://github.com/leggedrobotics/art_planner
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B. Yang, L. Wellhausen, T. Miki, M. Liu, M. Hutter -“Real-time Optimal Navigation Planning Using Learned Motion Costs”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 30-June 5, 2021, Xi'an, China
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L. Wellhausen, and M. Hutter, "Artplanner: Robust legged robot navigation in the field", Submitted to Field Robotics.
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M. Tranzatto, T. Miki, M. Dharmadhikari, L. Bernreiter, M. Kulkarni, F. Mascarich, O. Andersson, S. Khattak, M. Hutter, R. Siegwart, K. Alexis, "CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge", Science Robotics 7 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.abp9742
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M. Tranzatto, F. Mascarich, L. Bernreiter, C. Godinho, M. Camurri, S. Khattak, T. Dang, V. Reijgwart, J. Loje, D. Wisth, S. Zimmermann, H. Nguyen, M. Fehr, L. Solanka, R. Buchanan, M. Bjelonic, N. Khedekar, M. Valceschini, F. Jenelten, M. Dharmadhikari, T. Homberger, P. De Petris, L. Wellhausen, M. Kulkarni, T. Miki, S.Hirsch, M. Montenegro, C. Papachristos, F. Tresoldi, J. Carius, G. Valsecchi, J. Lee, K. Meyer, X. Wu, J. Nieto, A. Smith, M. Hutter, R. Siegwart, M. Mueller, Ma. Fallon, K. Alexis, "CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge", Field Robotics, 274–324 (2022). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2201.07067
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C. D. Bellicoso, M. Bjelonic, L. Wellhausen, K. Holtmann, F. Günther, M. Tranzatto, P. Fankhauser, M. Hutter, “Advances in real-world applications for legged robots”, Journal of Field Robotics, December 2018, pp. 1311-1326.
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"NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge," Accepted for publication in the Journal of Field Robotics, 2021. PDF
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"Autonomous Spot: Long-range Autonomous Exploration of Extreme Environments with Legged Locomotion," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, USA, 2020. Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics. PDF, Video
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"Deep Learning Tubes for Tube MPC," Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Corvallis, USA, 2020. PDF
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“Confidence-rich 3D Grid Mapping,” International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), vol.38, pp.1352-1374, 2019. PDF
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"Autonomous Navigation of Drones,” The International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR). Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019. PDF
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“Bi-directional Value Learning for Risk-aware Planning Under Uncertainty,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol.4, no.3, pp.2493-2500, March, 2019. PDF
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"LAMP: Large-Scale Autonomous Mapping and Positioning for Exploration of Perceptually-Degraded Subterranean Environments," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020. PDF
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"LOCUS - LiDAR Odometry for Consistent Operation in Uncertain Settings", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). 2020. PDF, Video
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“Contact Inertial Odometry: Collisions are your Friend,” The International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Hanoi, Vietnam, 2019. PDF
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T. Hines et al., "Virtual Surfaces and Attitude Aware Planning and Behaviours for Negative Obstacle Navigation," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 4048-4055, April 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3065302
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J. Williams et al., "Online 3D Frontier-Based UGV and UAV Exploration Using Direct Point Cloud Visibility," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), 2020, pp. 263-270. https://doi.org/10.1109/MFI49285.2020.9235268
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Hudson, Nicolas, et al. "Heterogeneous Ground and Air Platforms, Homogeneous Sensing: Team CSIRO Data61's Approach to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge." arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09053 (2021). https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09053
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Tidd, Brendan, et al. "Passing through narrow gaps with deep reinforcement learning." 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03991
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Steindl, Ryan, et al. "Bruce--Design and Development of a Dynamic Hexapod Robot." arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00523 (2020). https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00523
Rouček T. et al. (2020) DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Multi-robotic Exploration of Underground Environments. In: Mazal J., Fagiolini A., Vasik P. (eds) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43890-6_22
Rouček T. et al. (2021) System for multi-robotic exploration of underground environments CTU-CRAS-NORLAB in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Accepted to Field Robotics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05911
Tomas Baca, Matej Petrlik, Matous Vrba, Vojtech Spurny, Robert Penicka, Daniel Hert and Martin Saska. The MRS UAV System: Pushing the Frontiers of Reproducible Research, Real-world Deployment, and Education with Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 102(26):1–28, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01383-5
Matej Petrlik, Tomas Baca, Daniel Hert, Matous Vrba, Tomas Krajnik and Martin Saska. A Robust UAV System for Operations in a Constrained Environment. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2):2169-2176, April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2020.2970980
Vit Kratky, Pavel Petracek, Tomas Baca and Martin Saska. An autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle system for fast exploration of large complex indoor environments. Journal of Field Robotics, pages 1-24, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.22021
Pavel Petracek, Vit Kratky, Matej Petrlik, Tomas Baca, Radim Kratochvil and Martin Saska. Large-Scale Exploration of Cave Environments by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6(4):7596-7603, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3098304
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M. T. Ohradzansky, A. B. Mills, E. R. Rush, D. G. Riley, E. W. Frew and J. Sean Humbert, "Reactive Control and Metric-Topological Planning for Exploration," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 4073-4079, doi: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197381.
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S. Bateman, K. Harlow and C. Heckman, "Better Together: Online Probabilistic Clique Change Detection in 3D Landmark-Based Maps," 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020, pp. 4878-4885, doi: 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341789.
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M. T. Ohradzansky, et al., Multi-Agent Autonomy: Advancements and Challenges in Subterranean Exploration, Field Robots Journal, Special Edition, 2021.
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D. Riley and E. Frew, “Assessment of Coordinated Heterogeneous Exploration of Complex Environments” in Conference on ControlTechnology and Applications (CCTA) 2021.
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S. Ahmad, A. B. Mills, E. R. Rush, E. Frew, J. S. Humbert, “3D Reactive Control and Frontier-Based Exploration for Unstructured Environments”, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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S. Ahmad, Z. N. Sunberg, J. S. Humbert, “APF-PF: Probabilistic Depth Perception for 3D Reactive Obstacle Avoidance," in 2021 American ControlConference, 2021, p. 32-39.
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S. Ahmad, Z. N. Sunberg, J. S. Humbert, “End-to-End Probabilistic Depth Perception and 3D Obstacle Avoidance," in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2021, under review.
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A. Kramer, K. Harlow, C. Williams, C. Heckman, “ColoRadar: The Direct 3D Millimeter Wave Radar Dataset,” The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2021. https://arpg.github.io/coloradar/